44 TOBACCO GROWING IN GREAT BRITAIN. 



alwa^'s be manured ; but in Lower Hungary, 

 where the soil is mostly very rich, this need 

 scarcely be done oftener than once in six or nine 

 years. It is therefore attempted to improve the 

 soil by means of hoeing plants, and the following 

 rotation is observed : 1st, Hoeing plants, maize, 

 tobacco; 2nd, "Wheat; 3rd, Fodder plants; and 

 afterwards stubble pasture and summer fallow." 

 He then gives instances of rotation crops, fol- 

 lowed in Lower Hungary' : 



(1) 1. Fodder plants in manure. 



2. Tobacco. 



3. Wheat. 



4. Summer pasture with clover. 



5. Clovei\ 



6. Winter crop. 



(2) 1. Tobacco in manui-e. 



2. Wheat. 



3. Summer crop, such as barley with 



clover. 



4. Rape. 



5. Winter crop. 



6. Oats. 



It is a fact for which we are further indebted to 

 Hen* Mandis, that the tobacco crop " exhausts 



